Cottoh-plajtter



UNIED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

LEONIDAS M. RHODES, OF WARRENTON, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT. IN COTTON-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,776, dated January25, 1876; application tiled October 29, 1875.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONIDAS M. RHODES, of Warrenton, in the county ofWarren and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Cotton-Planter, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 isa vertical longitudinal section of my improved planter taken through theline a: 01:,Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My present invention is an improvement upon the machine forv which Iobtained Letters Patent No. 113,797. In said machine the seed isdischarged through a slot in the bottom of the hopper. I have, however,found that a better result may be attained by constructing the hopperwithout a slot, and providing the traveling-wheel with pins or fingersinclined rearward, so as to draw the seed toward the side of the wheeland deliver it through the space between the hopper and wheel, ashereinafter set forth.

The frame A B of the machine is rectangularin shape, and provided withhandles P, which are connected by round Q and support ed by standard It.A furrow-opener, 1), is'

being formed by a disk, F. In other words, the wheel forms one side ofthe hopper, but the former is so set or adjusted on the shaft H that asufficient space is left between the hopper and wheel to permit thedischarge of seed. This space can be widened or narrowed, at will, byadjusting the wheel on the shaft El by means of screw J. A series offingers or pins, K, project in a circle from the face or inner side ofthe wheel I, and each is inclined toward the left from a line drawnradially through itsbase, so that they will work or move the seedlaterally and rearward into the slot or space between the wheel and edgeof the hopper. The wheel 1 travels on the ground, and hence constantlyrotates as the machine is drawn forward. The topper is arrangedecoentric to the shaft H, so that the pins K pass over the bottomthereof as the wheel revolves.

A concentric row of seed-cups, L, is located LEONIDAS M. RHODES.

Witnesses:

JEPTHA M. GoDY, J OHN R. SWAIN.

